Dust brought back to Earth by China's Chang'e-6 mission contains rare meteorite relics that could change our understanding of sources of water and other life-essential ingredients in our solar system.
Humanity's drive to explore has taken us across the solar system, with astronaut boots, various landers and rovers' wheels ...
Blue Origin has announced a critical design milestone for its in-space resource utilization system called Blue Alchemist — a technology designed to turn lunar soil into metals, solar arrays, ...
S omewhere in the early summer of 2025, China’s Chang’e6 capsule landed on the South Pole of the Moon and started digging its ...
In 2024, Chang'e 6 made history by bringing 1,935.3 grams of lunar far-side samples back to Earth. These samples were ...
In a first, researchers have discovered fragments of Earth's precursor that contain distinctive chemical fingerprints in ...
Comet C/2025 A6 — also known as Lemmon — will make its closest approach to Earth on Tuesday night, Oct. 21, and will continue ...
The Orionid Meteor Shower is famous for fast meteors with glittering wakes known as 'trains' that sometimes linger for ...
AI is driving surging demand for data centers, but they require a lot of land and huge amounts of energy. Now, some think the ...
MIT astronauts aboard the International Space Station—and the MIT researchers who have sent up experiments—have advanced our ...
Not everything about space is true. Our planetary scientist is here to share the truth about popular celestial myths.